Mello Wins Law School Teaching Award for Mentorship and Integrity
Mello Wins Law School Teaching Award for Mentorship and Integrity
Michelle Mello, a professor of law and of health policy, wins the annual teaching award at Stanford Law School, where her students call her an inspirational leader and committed mentor.
Stanford Law School Professor Michelle Mello has been named the winner of SLS’s 2024 Barbara Allen Babcock Award for Excellence in Teaching. Based on student feedback, the Babcock award is given to instructors who teach first-year courses and who promote “inclusion of learning, intellectual rigor and commitment to the highest standards of professional integrity, mentorship and service.”
Mello, an empirical health law scholar whose research is focused on understanding the effects of law and regulation on health-care delivery and population health outcomes, holds a joint appointment at the Stanford University School of Medicine in the Department of Health Policy. At SLS, she teaches Torts to first-year students.
The award was established in 2020 in honor of the first woman appointed to the faculty of Stanford Law School. Babcock, the Judge John Crown Professor of Law, emerita, passed away in 2020. She was a pioneering lawyer and much-loved law professor.
